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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I get it.  My husband and I are both teleworking, but [b]neither of us can "call out sick" in any realistic way unless we legit get COVID 19.[/b]  Our employers (and coworkers, and supervisors, and direct reports, etc.) all need things from us and we have so much work to get done.  Plus we know we're not the only ones struggling so we're not about to dump the work on other people.  And we can't exactly call in sick for 8 weeks!!

But we have two young kids at home and IT IS SO HARD.  I'm exhausted, and it's only week 1.  I don't have any advice.  Just commiseration.  [/quote]

This is such BS. If you had the flu, if you broke your arm, if your kid was ill, you would call out for a day or more and your work would be fine. If you died, your work would figure it out. A lot of people here are addicted to the feeling of busyness. The universe is giving you an unprecedented opportunity to slow down and you won't take it.

I have a job, I manage people, I have deliverables. They can wait a few hours each day, or a day or two. They can call me if I'm offline and they desperately need an answer.  It's ok to put myself first. [/quote]

This x1000. The only thing worse than SAHMartyrs is WOHMartyrs. Yes, the world can survive if you take a day off. You may think the company would go bankrupt without you, but they’re resilient, I promise.[/quote]
Sorry but you don’t know how demanding someone’s job can be at times.
Last year I got pneumonia and was sick for six weeks (high fever for part of the day), genuinely ill.  My boss made such a big deal about me taking a day off when a new person who I was supposed to manage was starting.  I kept telling her I’m sick I can’t work right now unless you want me to be in the hospital, and she told me to basically suck it up because I’m a manager.  I reported it because it’s against corporate policy to have people work sick, but it doesn’t change the fact that she’s still my direct supervisor and has a lot of influence on my compensation. 
So yes there are people with demanding jobs that will not let up and most of us don’t have the legit ability to just quit.[/quote]

That situation is caused by a horrible manager, not because the job description requires the performer to be on duty 24/7 or the world will stop spinning.[/quote]

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